---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 14
verse_count: 22
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 14, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 14

**1** Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
**2** He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
**3** And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
**4** Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
**5** Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
**6** Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
**7** For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 5
**8** Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
**9** Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
**10** But man dieth, and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
**11** As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
**12** So man lieth down, and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
**13** Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
**14** If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
**15** Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee; thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
**16** For now thou numberest my steps; dost thou not watch over my sin?
**17** My transgression is sealed up in a bag. and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
**18** And surely the mountain falling cometh to naught, and the rock is removed out of his place.
**19** The waters wear the stones; thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
**20** Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
**21** His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
**22** But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.